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- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
"I didn't focus people on the threat, especially those managing the new business. Where I did emphasize the threat was in working with the parent organization to get them off their butts and in arguing for resources." Modularize... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
argue that inertial forces generally constrict how TMTs perceive innovations but that frame flexibility can overcome these constraints, increasing the likelihood of adoption and broadening the organization's innovation practices. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
argued the merits of each, we inquired into which happiness people say they want. In five studies (N = 3351), we asked people to choose between experienced happiness and remembered happiness—for shorter time frames (e.g., one’s next hour)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
democracies. While all governments have monetary and fiscal tools, such as the manipulation of interest rates, exchange rates, and government spending, at their disposal to manage and smooth business cycles, they employ these tools in different ways for political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. In particular, we argue that purposeful reflection on one's accumulated experience leads to greater learning than the accumulation of additional experience. We explain this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Carliss Y. Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture are the system's bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
software in private fixed investment in the United States. We argue that these findings point to a large potential undercounting of "digital dark matter" and related IT spillovers from university and federal funding. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
can be difficult, from a fairness perspective, to argue that the poor should pay the same rate of tax on their income as the rich. Most societies don't believe that the poor should pay the same rate as the rich. For this reason, many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
argue that the evolving global network structure affects firms' propensity to form bridging ties by shaping the structural opportunities for bridging. We test our theory using the network of partnership ties among firms in the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
anyone can visit for $2. Today the drugstore chain has upwards of 3,500 outlets and revenues of $900 million. Two-and-a-half million people visit the doctors and 10.5 million people go through "Farmacia Simi" per month. Just by the numbers I gave you, one... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
cave—if you have a collection of caves within reach of each other—know other members of other caves, and it's this combination of a tight, local clustering with an occasional weak, distant tie to other clusters, that is the essence of a small world. Some View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
positioned the company for expansion, they thought perhaps the company’s eight values should become more succinct, memorable, and aligned with the company’s vision. Tan Caktiong was aware, however, that some company executives would view pausing to contemplate values a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
these "common good" kinds of items, which use resources more productively. In the winning situations, this makes these cities more economically competitive at the same time. This article further argues for investments grounded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs and to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We argue that several of these intuitive theoretical arguments rely on special additional assumptions that are often not made clear. We then review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
periods. One thing to note is that it is not unexpected that investors and analysts would have optimistic expectations for firms that are growing and need financing. One might argue that such firms (i.e., 'growth' firms) are characterized... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
highest grades. I believe that would have been a huge mistake, because if you cherry-pick the best students, they might do well, but then you build in a barrier to replicating [the model], because critics might argue that it only works... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
platforms, crowdsourcing, and the gig economy. Building upon the knowledge-based view of the firm, we argue that these increasingly common governance models offer a wealth of opportunities but require organizations to adopt a translucent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
challenging in the past, and remains so today, the book argues that one reason was how they have both been defined. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52778 forthcoming Journal of International Economics The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
signals, we consider the influence of singular sector-level triggers, which we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne